HUMILITY

What does Humility have to do with the practice of Alchemy?

Humility is to receive the teachings that are given us without contesting them, because we believe in the knowledge of the teacher that gives it to us, without prejudice even when we see that they are not in accord with the logic or the procedures that we know through study or experience. Transcending these apparent discrepancies, Humility is the ability to accept the good will of the teacher who transmits knowledge to us in good faith.

Humility is the ability to recognize when we are wrong, although convinced that we are right, when our errors are revealed to us.

Humility is the ability to explain to others what they do not know, but without boasting of what we do know.

Humility is to share with the others our knowledge without receiving anything in exchange; only for the satisfaction of transmitting the knowledge.

Humility is to contemplate Nature, to observe its evolution and to recognize that we are incapable of understanding it fully; to follow it and to imitate it.

Humility is to feel incapable of understanding all that the Great Masters have bequeathed us regarding the Art; to recognize and to accept the occasional incapacity of our ability to understand it.

But as human beings, we are not perfect, nor do we act in the way of Humility.